On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:46:09AM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > When I put nano in the toolbar of filerunner to use as a default editor for > .txt files, nano never appears, > yet it runs in the back ground, and when I log out of X (on F6), the X exits > in nano, > and I cannot use the F6 (which I custommarily use for startx) to execute > any commands whatsoever! > And, nano continues in the background till I reboot. > > > When I try to use nano as a default editor with Rox-filer, nano never > appears, yet, > as evident from top, it uses all CPU power available till I, either kill the > pid, or reboot. > > Nano otherwise starts OK from the icewm(that's what I use) menu, or from > xterm.
I think you are confused. Nano is a console application, so if you launch it inside a graphical application, it won't work. Well, it will, but you won't see it. Have you tried configuring these programs to use "x-terminal-emulator -e nano"? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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